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INTRO REBOOT DEVELOP BLUE | 2022
y Back into the light
It has been way too long, three and a half iconic return of Reboot Develop in its well-
years, since the last moment the worldwide known glorious form!
games industry gathered at one of the most
Welcome back to Dubrovnik dear games
unique and truly beautiful locations in the
industry friends, we cannot wait to tell you
world, the breath-taking historical city of
more about our insanely ambitious plans
Dubrovnik.
for Reboot Develop conferences in the very
As most of you are aware, those years were near future.
incredibly challenging for all of us at Reboot,
We do promise that we will make sure to
almost at the same level as they were for
stick around whatever this weird universe
the rest of the world (a few devastating
we all currently live in decides to throw
earthquakes and similar mind bending,
our way. In the end, it does seem that
unexpected interventions from the universe
we are always outnumbered... but never
made sure that we were playing our game
outgunned!
at level+). Thanks to the insane passion of
the tiny but indestructible Reboot team and
incredible support given by dear friends _Damir Durovic (damir@reboot.hr)
from the worldwide games industry we did CEO
push through to be able to welcome you at Reboot
this in more ways than one special, even
PATRONS OF FINE DIGITAL ART AND ENTERTAINMENT: PATRONS OF FINE DIGITAL ART AND ENTERTAINMENT:
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SPEAKERS REBOOT DEVELOP BLUE | 2022
Reboot Develop through half a decade of it’s existence has become a synonym for outstanding, best
in its class speaker lineups, gathering some of the finest worldwide games industry creators and
developers, including not just industry legends but also indie developer superstars as well as AAA
studio heads and leads. This year Reboot Develop is going to host 100+ great speakers.
*arranged in order of the submissions
attract mode is a boutique digital marketing agency tailored to the
Nika Nour
Peter Nagy Genvid Entertainment, Head of Partnerships
needs of the video games industry and equipped with experienced Tristone, CEO and Creative Director
y Nika joined Genvid in 2021 to man-
manpower. We unite our love for games with our passion for marketing. y Peter Nagy has been involved in age relationships with game developers,
game development for more than publishers, platforms and IP holders,
We develop impactful marketing strategies and enhance performance 20 years. He has unparalleled and focused on producing and publishing
diverse industry experience and has massive interactive live events (MILEs).
based marketing with creative excellence to deliver outstanding results worked with some of the world’s Nika spent more than a decade building coalitions and
most renowned companies. Besides his creative programs for leading internet and video game com-
for our clients. and teamleading skills at Games Farm and produc- panies. As the former Executive Director for the IGDA
tion company Grindstone, he recently established Foundation, she developed diversity, equity, and inclusion
premium game development club Tristone to boost efforts for underrepresented game creators. Previously
• Marketing Consulting the Slovakian game development ecosystem. He is
one of the founding members of Slovakian Game
the ESA’s Head of Public Affairs, she took a leading role
in messaging, consumer outreach, and corporate social
• Performance Marketing Developers Association. Peter is a speaker at many responsibility.
events and is one of the key figures in the Slovakian
• Media Planning & Buying game development industry.
Doug North Cook
• Creative Services Jörg Tittel Robot Teddy, Head of VR Fund
• Social Media Management Oiffy, Director y Doug is a designer, professor, and
researcher focused on immersive experi-
y Jörg is a writer, director and
• Influencer Marketing producer of films, plays and games.
ence design. He was the founding facul-
ty for the Immersive Media programs at
Projects include graphic novel Ricky Chatham University, lead instructor for
Rouse Has a Gun (now being turned
Get in touch with our business development manager into a movie and game) and sci-fi
the Immersive Design Residencies at Fallingwater, and
is currently Head of VR Fund at Robot Teddy (the team
and find out how we can enhance your marketing. drama The White King starring Jonathan Pryce. He’s working with Among Us VR, Ziggys Cosmic Adventure,
currently producing painted animation A Winter’s The Last Clockwinder, No More Rainbows, and oth-
Journey starring John Malkovich, the first feature to ers). His upcoming book, Human Spatial Computing,
use Media Molecule’s Dreams to design and build its co-authored with NYU Professor Regine Gilbert, will be
mirko@attractmode.de
sets. The Last Worker, the only game selected for the published by Oxford University Press in late 2023.
78th Venice Film Festival, is his first collaboration with
VR pioneers Wolf & Wood. The game is coming to PC
this October, followed by consoles and VR platforms. Ljubica Garic
8Bit, Senior Recruiter
François Alliot y Ljubica Garic works in 8Bit as a
Nerial, Game Developer Senior Recruiter. She has four years of
experience in the field. Her specializa-
y Francois Alliot is the founder of tions are Art, Animation, and Game
Nerial, the studio behind the Reigns design Roles. She uses her expertise to
series of games and more recently find the best possible jobs for the game developers.
Card Shark. He is a game developer, She comes with journalism, event management, and
attractmode.de writer and game designer. tech entrepreneurship background.
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Rod Stafford Johanna Pirker
Kythera AI, Head of Business Development Lab Director
y Rod is an experienced business y Dr. Johanna Pirker is a com-
leader and technology evangelist puter scientist leading the Game
with a specialism in large scale simu- Lab Graz focusing on game and VR
lation. At Kythera AI Rod is working development, research, and educa-
with leading studios and publishers tion and is an active and strong
to push the boundaries of what is possible in both voice of the local dev community. In 2011/12 she
the scale and complexity of AI in games and adjacent started researching and developing VR experi-
entertainments, with a view to making transportable ences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At
AI behaviour key to the evolution of a compelling the moment, she is Prof. for game development at
metaverse experience. the Graz University of Technology and researches
games with a focus on AI, HCI, data analysis, and
Kate Edwards VR technologies. Johanna was listed on the Forbes
30 Under 30 list of science professionals for her
Geogrify / SetJetters. CEO / CXO & Co-Founder innovations in immersive technologies.
y Kate Edwards is an award win-
ning 28+ year veteran of the game
industry, and the CEO and principal
Ivan Krechnak
consultant of Geogrify, a consul- PowerPlay Studio, CEO
tancy which innovated content
culturalization, as well as the CXO and Co-Founder y Originally a doctor of medicine,
of SetJetters, a film tourism app. She is also the Ivan Krechnak has been involved in
former Executive Director of the International the game industry since 2003. His
Game Developers Association (IGDA) and the specialization is game design and
Global Game Jam. In addition to serving in several gamer´s psychology. He founded
advisory roles, she is a geographer, writer, and cor- PowerPlay Studio in 2007, a company primar-
porate strategist. In 2021, she was included in the ily focused on developing online sports games.
Forbes’ “50 Over 50” Vision List and was inducted PowerPlay Studio has released 18 games played by
into the Women in Games Hall of Fame. over 22 million players worldwide. Among other
things, PowerPlay Studio is actively involved in the
promotion of sports and supports talented ath-
Darcy W Smith letes. The studio earned the Deloitte Technology
Fast 50 in Central Europe award in 2014 as the
Studio Folly, Co-founder & Game Director fastest-growing tech company in Slovakia.
y Darcy is a game director and
designer that specialises in games Cassia Curran Achieving Wonder Together
that make you think. He is most
known for his seven years at Curran Games Agency, Founder
Melbourne’s own League of Geeks
y Cassia Curran (she/they) is the Built on creativity and imagination, Sumo Group is home
(LoG) as project lead for Armello, one of Australia’s
most compelling new game IPs. After a decade
founder of Curran Games Agency, to award-winning studios in the UK, Europe, India, and
in the industry Darcy has made a variety of weird
a business consulting agency for Canada - developing, designing, and publishing some of
indie game developers. Cassia the biggest projects in the games and entertainment
and wonderful digital content around videogames
is also an active angel investor
and TTRPGs, and is now the co-founder of his own industries today.
and advisor at multiple game investment funds.
game development company, Studio Folly. Darcy
is committed to making atypical games for people
She previously was the CEO of WINGS, Head of Discover more at sumogroupltd.com
Business Development at Jagex and worked in
to love, and Studio Folly’s debut title is just around
business development and investor relations at
the corner.
NetEase in China.
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SPEAKERS REBOOT DEVELOP BLUE | 2022
Marek Rosa
Keen Software House & GoodAI, CEO, Founder
y Marek Rosa is the CEO of
Tadej Gregorcic
GoodAI, a general artificial intel- coherence, CTO / Co-Founder
ligence R&D company, and the CEO
of Keen Software House, an inde- y Tadej is co-founder and CTO
pendent game development stu- at coherence, a company that
dio best known for its best-seller Space Engineers gives everyone the power to build
(4 million copies sold). Marek has been interested and run multiplayer games and
in artificial intelligence since childhood. He started virtual worlds. He’s been in games
his career as a programmer but later transitioned and high-tech for over 20 years and built global
to a leadership role. After the success of the Keen projects with the likes of Supercell, adidas, LG
Software House titles, Marek was able to person- and NBCUniversal. After developing a knack for
ally fund GoodAI, his new general AI research com- computer graphics and engine coding through
pany building human-level artificial intelligence, the European demoscene in the 90’s, he started
with a $10M investment. several companies, including Motiviti, a digital
production and games studio in Slovenia. He lives
in Sweden, loves sauna, reads sci-fi and is making
the adventure game Elroy and the Aliens in his
Ivan Trančík free time.
SuperScale, CEO & Founder
y Entrepreneur, game growth-
hacker and gamer. After co-founding
Daniel Mullins
an e-commerce real-time analytics Daniel Mullins Games, Indie Developer
platform which became Exponea
y After a few years of working
(acquired by Bloomreach in 2021),
in the Vancouver games industry
in 2016 Ivan founded SuperScale - a technol-
as a programmer, Daniel Mullins
ogy growth platform for mobile and NFT games.
achieved indie success with his
SuperScale has been one of the fastest growing
2016 hit “Pony Island”. During the
startups in CE region and is now present in the UK
following 6 years he released both “The Hex” and
and in the US.
“Inscryption”, bringing Pony Island’s eclectic genre
mixing into more substantial and ambitious titles.
He is a lover of game jams, which have served as
Tomislav Jurić inspiration for his larger projects.
Bongfish GmbH, Art Director
y Tomislav joined Bongfish in 2016
first as a 2D Artist and Animator until
Adam Sawicki
he later moved on to Art Direction. AMD, Developer Technology Engineer
Before entering Game Development, y Adam Sawicki is a Senior
he worked on art and graphic design Member of Technical Staff /
for influencers as well as companies, and practiced Developer Technology Engineer at
his craft by inserting his own art in existing games. AMD where he focuses on help-
Using this method gave Tomislav the chance to ing game developers to utilize
learn and grow as an artist. He focused his first few AMD GPUs efficiently. Previously, he worked on
years in Game Development mainly on innovating games and game engines, digital satellite televi-
the beloved art style of the Smurf’s IP. The focal sion, graphics drivers, shader compiler and other
points of his day-to-day work now are concept art aspects of computer graphics. He holds a master
for new as well as existing IPs and overseeing art degree in computer science.
production.
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IT’S
ABOUT
VIDEO
GAMES.
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SPEAKERS REBOOT DEVELOP | 2022
Nina Adams
Dr Blay Whitby Auroch Digital, Operations Director
y Nina has had an eclectic and
University of Sussex, Lecturer
varied career path. From circus
y Dr. Blay Whitby is a philosopher
and ethicist concerned with the
performer to Operations Director,
and everything in-between. Nina Powerhouse Performance
joined Auroch Digital in 2015 as From fluid gaming to major levels of performance,
social impacts of new and emerg- AMD Ryzen™ processors and AMD Radeon™ graphics
ing technologies. His publications the Office Manager and has worked across finance,
enhance the gaming experience.
include Do you want a robot lover?, business development, HR and production, work-
On Computable Morality, and Sometimes it’s hard ing her way up to Operations Director. Nina has
to be a robot. He has published three books on worked alongside Tom Rawlings to pitch, sign and
the impacts of AI.Dr. Whitby is a member of the develop great games, including the digital adapta-
Ethics Group of BCS, The Chartered Institute of IT tion of Steve Jackson’s Ogre, Achtung! Cthulhu
and an ethical advisor to The Royal Academy of Tactics, their own IP. In 2021 Nina was an integral
Engineering and an ethics expert for the EU.Dr. part of Auroch’s acquisition by the Sumo Group,
Whitby currently lectures at Imperial College, The further extending her knowledge of the industry.
Technical University of Vienna, Sussex University,
and Brighton and Sussex Medical School.
Mattias Liljeson
Panos Karabelas AMD, Developer Technology Engineer EMPOWER YOUR DEVELOPMENT
AMD, Developer Technology Engineer y Mattias works as a GPU devel-
oper technology engineer at AMD,
y Panos Karabelas is a Member where he helps game developers
of Technical Staff / Developer make the most out of AMD hard-
Technology Engineer at AMD, ware.
one of his responsibilities is to
help developers get the most
out of Unreal Engine and AMD GPUs. He previ- AMD Radeon™ Graphics AMD Ryzen™ Processors Harness GPUOpen Unleash FSR 2
ously worked on racing games as well as some VR
games. He is a fan of open-source development Pawel Rohleder AMD Radeon™ RX 6000 Series
graphics cards are engineered to
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PixelAnt Games, Co-founder / Studio Director performance, mind-blowing to learn more. solution: AMD FidelityFX™
past 8 years. processors offer the one thing
visuals, and comes with features to everyone needs – ultimate Super Resolution 2 technology.
y People-oriented game indus- enhance any gaming experience for
performance.
all gamers.
try professional with a software
engineering background. Currently
Dihara Wijetunga leading PixelAnt Games studio.
Participated in a number of AAA
AMD, Senior Software Engineer titles from start to finish (e.g. Dying Light, Dying
Light 2, Dead Island, Call of Juarez series, and more AMD Ryzen™ 7000 Series Processors
y Dihara Wijetunga is a Senior - during 14 years at Techland). Regularly invited At Computex 2022, AMD shared more details about the upcoming AMD
Software Engineer within and highly experienced speaker at 60+ gaming Ryzen™ 7000 Series processors built with 5nm process technology and the
AMD’s Game Engineering Core and technology conferences. Loves new chal- new AMD Socket AM5 platform. The Ryzen™ 7000 Series processor launches
Technology Group, where he works on September 27th, 2022.
lenges and taking on “the impossible”. 20+ years
on rendering technologies for AMD in gaming showed me the importance of values-
GPUs and other partner ecosystems. Initially com- based company culture. In PixelAnt Games we are
ing from a mobile graphics background, he now on the quest to bring fun back into gamedev.
focuses on areas such as upscaling, real-time ray
tracing, denoising and optimisation.
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SPEAKERS REBOOT DEVELOP | 2015
Frederick Raynal
Ludoïd, Games and Electronic Toys Maker
Jack Attridge
Flavourworks, Creative Director/Founder
y Born in 1966, Video games
creator and programmer since the y Building on a career across both
80’s. Main titles: PopCorn PC 1988, film and games, Jack co-founded
Alone in the dark PC 1992, Little Big Flavourworks with the goal of mar-
Adventure PC 1994, Toy Commander rying the two mediums together
Dreamcast 1999. Electronic toys and industrial to an unprecedented degree. Using
machines conception, prototyping and program- breakthrough in-house tactile video technology,
ming since 2000. and pioneering ludonarrative craft, the 25-strong,
multi-disciplinary studio aims to revolutionise the
space between film and games. Since Flavourworks’
inception, Jack has acted as Creative Director across
Damir Slogar ERICA, HUSH, and now CUTTLEFISH, with more
innovative projects in development.
Q4 Capital, President
y With over 35 years in the
industry and credited for over 100
games across 20 different platforms, James Schall
Damir experienced the video game Secret Mode, Director of Publishing
industry through and through. Born
in Croatia, he started his career in the mid 80’s as y James is a 30 year veteran of OUR SERVICES
a programmer creating games for the MSX and the videogames industry, 8 year
Amiga. The next couple of years, he spent produc- spell with Amazon at the turn of
ing and hosting a live video game TV show. In 1995, the century followed by a 13 year
he founded a video game magazine Pixel. Next stint at SEGA where James was Vice
4 years, he spent as a lead programmer in Digital President of Global Digital Business. James left
Illusions. In 2002, he started Big Blue Bubble, which SEGA to join Sumo Group and set up Secret Mode
became one of the best known studios in North in November 2020. Secret Mode is a publishing
America. He sold the company in 2020. division within Sumo servicing indie and internal
projects from within the group.
Georg Hobmeier Representation Publishing Services Consulting Investment Services
Causa Creations, Creative Director
Martin Stig Andersen Managing sales efforts and Providing comprehensive Industry guidance and Securing and sourcing game
securing deals solutions for self-publishing investment data to build and industry investment
Composer, Game Audio Specialist execute on your plans
y Georg Hobmeier, born and bred
in the Tyrolean Alps, is a writer and y After creating the audio for
game designer. After a decade of LIMBO and INSIDE, Martin went on
developing art that was interfacing to focus on interactive composition,
dance, theatre, and technology, he scoring titles such as “Wolfenstein
turned his attention to the development of games. II: The New Colossus”, “Control”
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In 2014 he founded Causa Creations, a studio dedi- and “Back 4 Blood”. He was involved as ambient Investment Review REPORTS
cated to social awareness games and interactive music designer on “Shadow of the Tomb Raider”, SINGLE USER LICENSE
experiences. Recent projects include the award and has recently remastered the audio for the
winning cooperation with the UNHCR Path Out, the upcoming “Braid, Anniversary Edition”. Influenced
Kickstarter card game sensation Sefirot and Rising by a background in electroacoustic composition,
Tide, a climate chance XR game for schools that is Martin’s work has earned him several international
currently in development. awards including two D.I.C.E. awards for Original
Composition and Sound Design respectively and a Game Industry Investment Data
Game Developers Choice Award for Best Audio. Providing detailed, qualified information companies and
investors need to drive their businesses.
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Uros Obradovic
Playstudios, Art Director
Lucas Pessoa de Freitas
y Uros is working as video game
Robot Teddy, Business Developer
designer on different platforms
for more then 10 yrs. Today he is y Lucas is a Business Developer
leading a skilful band of artists in currently working at Robot Teddy
Playstudios bringing slot games to supporting several indie develop-
another level. In free time he is reading, sculpting, ers with their ongoing projects.
writing and drawing a lot. Before, he has worked for Brazilian
and international companies, such as Hermit Crab,
Game Jam+, and Zplay, while doing a lot of Dev
Relations and internal operations work. He has a
Patrice Desilets Narrative Design and academic background and
has been helping local studios from the Brazilian
Panache Digital Games, President and Creative
dev community since he joined the industry.
Director
y Patrice now cumulates 25 years
in the games industry and has
been recognized over the years for Dino Patti
his audacity and thinking outside
coherence, CEO and Founder
the box. With a background in
theater, improvisation and cinema, he gets his y With 20 years of professional
creative inspiration in all sorts of art forms as well experience in the games industry
as in history. Most known for his work on Prince of Dino Patti, has made a name for
Persia: The Sands of Time and as the original cre- himself. Most notably he is known
ative director behind the global success franchise for his role in co-founding, scaling
Assassin’s Creed, Patrice decided to found his own and running Playdead as CEO for almost 10 years.
studio in 2014 in order to have complete creative Dino has had an advising role in several game
freedom and create new and original IPs such as and game related companies including the GDC
Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey. Europe Advisory Board. In 2017 Dino founded
JUMPSHIP with Chris Olsen, where the promising
title “Somerville” is brought to life and in 2019 he
launched coherence – an open, accessible and
Adam Boyes lightning-fast platform for building scalable and
persistent worlds.
Iron Galaxy Studios, Co-CEO
y Adam Boyes is responsible for
the Company’s overall strategic
vision and core partnerships. Dean Woodward
Prior to this role, Boyes was Vice
Beethoven & Dinosaur, Producer
President of Third Party Relations
& Developer Technology Group at Sony y A Producer hailing from
Interactive Entertainment America where he over- Melbourne, Australia, Woody
saw Publisher & Developer Relations, Portfolio worked at League of Geeks on
Strategy, Financial Strategy, Partner Alliance, Armello for 6+ years and more
Technical Account Management, Developer recently won a BAFTA for his work
Technology Group and the 3rd Party Production on The Artful Escape at Beethoven & Dinosaur.
team - driving them to record revenue and profit- Uncovering the hidden mystical art of produc-
ability numbers consistently year over year. tion is one of his pursuits, along with making rad
games with rad people in ways that aren’t lame.
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Alastair Hebson Dan Da Rocha
SUPERHOT, Head of Business & Publishing Jaw Drop Games, Studio Head
y I’ve been creating video games y Dan started out in the games
for 15+ years. Once upon a time I industry straight from University
was a AAA games designer. Now with indie game, Q.U.B.E. 12 years
help studios and publishers with and 50 awards/nominations
all things commercial and business later, he has shipped a variety of
related. Indie friendly. Occasional consultant. games. In 2020, Dan co-founded and scaled up
Double-A game studio, Jaw Drop Games, to 50+
staff and is working on multiple titles, Gun Jam and
Julia Kenny Deathground. In 2022, he sold his previous com-
pany to publisher, Curve Games. He has also been
Thunderful, Head of Scouting included in the Forbes “30 Under 30” and GI.biz “Top
100” lists.
y With a background in publish-
ing and investment, Julia has
worked at companies both in the
UK and abroad. She has been driv-
Anna Hollinrake
en by identifying strong potential Freelance, Art Director
in development teams and projects and working
towards releasing new and relevant games for y Anna Hollinrake is an award
communities to enjoy. Relationships and authen- winning art director, illustrator,
ticity are top priority for her. When things get busy, and BAFTA Breakthrough Brit. Most
she tries to remember that being kind, engaged recently the Creative Services Art
and enjoying yourself are the most important Lead for Fall Guys at Mediatonic
things, the rest will follow. in the lead up to its highly successful ‘Free for
All’ launch, she has worked on game IPs such as
Adventure Time: Pirates of the Enchiridion, and
Magic: Duels, as well as indie projects such as Lola
Fawzi Mesmar and the Giant. Her work also extends to animation,
having art directed the 2D animated show Love
Ubisoft, VP Editorial
Monster for the BBC.
y Fawzi Mesmar is an award win-
ning Game designer, leader, author
and public speaker that has been in
the gaming industry for almost two
Ste Curran
decades in a career that spanned the Independent, Creative Director
middle east, New Zealand, Japan and Europe work-
ing for companies such as Ubisoft, EA, Activision y Ste Curran is a game designer
Blizzard, Gameloft and Atlus to name a few. He has and creative director from London,
worked on over 20 titles that have been enjoyed by England. As well as working on
millions of players worldwide including entries in games that he probably can’t
Battlefield, Persona and Others. He is also the author talk about right now he hosts the
of “Al-Khallab in the art of game design” the first world’s longest running gaming radio show, One
Arabic language text book on game design. Life Left, and runs Maraoke, a night of pop songs
rewritten about videogames. His monologues
about game design and culture have been vari-
ously described as “life-changing” and “an hour of
nothing”.
22 23Ari Arnbjörnsson
Dan Pearson Epic Games, Evangelist
Genvid, Product Marketing Manager
y Ari Arnbjörnsson is an Unreal
&
y After over a decade in indus- Engine Evangelist at Epic Games.
IE
try journalism at Eurogamer and He has 15 years of varied games
IND
GamesIndustry.biz, and five years industry experience ranging from
working in BD and marketing since, social, web and mobile games
I have just about begun to under- to console games. His latest work before join-
stand the ever evolving wonders of the games ing Epic Games was as a lead programmer on
industry. I’m very lucky to be working for a company
S
Housemarque’s BAFTA-winning Returnal for
on the forefront of entertainment innovation, allow-
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PlayStation 5.
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ing me to continue to grow that understanding.
Callum Underwood
Mikhail Golub
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Outfit7, Senior Software Engineer
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IndieBI, Co-founder
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y Mikhail Golub’s worked in
y Callum is the co-founder and CSO web development, mobile native
of IndieBI, a platform that allows development and now, in his
developers to automatically track current role as Senior Software
and benchmark all of their games Engineer at Outfit7, mobile game
sales. Callum recently left Robot development. Recently, he’s worked on some of
Teddy, after being acquired by Thunderful in 2021, Outfit7’s flagship titles like My Talking Tom Friends
and has previously worked for Kowloon Nights, Raw and Talking Tom Hero Dash, and his current focus
Fury, and Oculus as a scout, and managed business is on tech R&D and performance optimizations.
for Among Us, Gang Beasts, and SUPERHOT. He is With 10+ programming languages under his belt
and a 10+ year history with Unity, his passion for
SATURDAY
committed to supporting independent develop-
ers around the world, and promoting excellence in
games.
computers is going strong. He’s passionate about
studying low-level details of how they work, and
17:30 - 18:00
figuring out how to make them work faster.
BONGFISH STAGE
Tamara Milenković Ville Rauma
Outfit7, Principal HR Partner & Talent Fingersoft, COO
Acquisition Lead
y Ville Rauma is a Finnish game
y Tamara Milenković is a firm industry veteran with over 15 years
believer in creating safe, healthy, of experience. Some of his more
productive, and creative work envi- notable achievements include
ronments for people in the gaming taking part in development of
industry. Years of frontline game pro- mega hits Hill Climb Racing, Hill Climb Racing 2
duction experience as a Game Artist and Producer and founding the Fingersoft Liveops Team which
have given her unique insights and expertise that has been instrumental to Fingersoft’s success.
she uses to craft her trailblazing approaches on Currently Ville’s focus is in helping game teams
powered by
how to build, develop, support, and grow multidis- succeed by building a healthy game development
ciplinary teams. Whether she’s promoting eSports ecosystem where new ideas are constantly tested,
culture, doing SFX makeup for zombie walks, or most promising concepts end up in full production
coaching people and teams, Tamara uses a people- and where everyone has continuous opportuni-
first approach to enable others to do their best. ties to contribute, learn and grow. He calls it “The
Funnel”.
24 25CRAFT INCREDIBLE GAMES
Bongfish was founded in 2006 in Graz, Austria. The goal for
our gaming studio was simple: craft incredible games that
combine state-of-the-art technology with deep gameplay.
We create and cooperate on games that are played by
millions of fans worldwide - including top titles such as the
acclaimed Stoked series, unique racing-shooter hybrid
Harm’s Way and the classic Motocross Madness. Our focus on
Co-Development helped to create the cutting-edge Microsoft
Flight Simulator, together with Wargaming we created the
community’s most-liked World of Tanks game mode and took
creative ownership of the captivating Star Stable Horses and
whimsical Smurfs’ Village. Our high-tech approach to Game
Development and 15+ years of experience in the field have
provided us with the tools to create fun and refined
titles for console, mobile and PC platforms, and gave us the
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Dan Luffey
Freelance, Translator
Ciaran Deasy
y Over his 15 years in the game
industry, Dan has managed localiza- Housemarque, Senior Gameplay Programmer
tion projects for over 20 indie games y Ciaran graduated as a
and personally translated many Computer Scientist in 2014 and
more. Aside from translation work, entered the industry as a gameplay
he has interpreted for Japanese speakers at events programmer. He worked for four
around the world and worked closely with different years on LEGO Worlds juggling vox-
Japanese development studios. Currently his main els, and then joined Housemarque in 2018 to work
focus is scenario writing. on gameplay systems and AI for Returnal.
Hidetaka “SWERY” Suehiro Pedro Ramos
White Owls Inc., President and CEO Outfit7, Senior Data Scientist
y Game director, writer, novel- y From his academic background
ist, and drinker. President of the in math and economics, to his role
Japanese video game developer as a Senior Data Scientist at Outfit7,
White Owls Inc. He has been involved Pedro Ramos has always had a way
in game production since 1996 with numbers. Passionate about
and has created numerous games. His represen- core game analytics, he’s been a bridge between
tative work, “The MISSING: j.j. macfield and the the Business Intelligence, Design, and Monetization
island of memories” won many awards including teams at Outfit7, shaping how they understand
NAVGTR. Another of his best-known games, “Deadly and address the preferences and needs of users.
Premonition,” was listed in the 2012 Guinness World Recently, he embraced the role of Game Designer on
Records Gamer’s Edition as the “Most Critically the company’s new strategy RPG, Mythic Legends,
Learn how i3D.net helps games like Polarizing Survival Horror Game. The game is also
available for purchase on the Internet.”
helping teams make more data-driven decisions
when designing features and showing them how to
Rocket League, FIFA and The Division optimize them in post-production stages.
scale across the globe on its network Nikola Cavic
GameBiz Consulting, CEO Žiga Sedovnik
built for low-latency gaming. y Nikola Čavić is CEO at the Outfit7, Principal Data Scientist
GameBiz Consulting, a boutique y In his current position as
business consulting firm for the Principal Data Scientist at Outfit7,
EVERY DAY AT 11:00 AM & 5:00 PM video games industry. Nikola Žiga Sedovnik combines the roles
is also an advisor to multiple of monetization designer (creating
companies and a board member at the Serbian monetization for new and existing
Games Association, which he co-founded in 2018. games), product manager, and system designer.
Previously, he served seven years as the Head of Day to day, he looks to build better models while
Business Development at Nordeus, and he spent disrupting commonly-held views and learning
five years with the CCP Games where he was something new. He gained his Masters in Financial
responsible for global distribution of EVE Online. Mathematics and has remained determined to put
During his career, Nikola was involved in many math to use in practice in his career. In his work,
international projects with global leaders in the he’s driven to find (near) optimal solutions to prob-
sports & games industry. lems in the fields of data science, programming,
and gaming.
28 29Blaž Tomažič Games are fun.
Making them
Outfit7, Senior Software Engineer
y Blaž Tomažič is a Senior Software
Engineer at Outfit7, working on the Vladimir Bogdanić
should be too!
low-level details of game develop-
ment. Before delving into the mobile Under the Stairs, Director
space, his most notable works were y Vladimir has worked in the cre-
in GPU testing frameworks (Mesa’s Piglit) and PC ative industry for over 15 years. He
games (Hypernova: Escape from Hadea). He’s work- holds a degree in computer science
ing on helping Outfit7’s developers produce better and has worked in both print and
mobile games by expanding various game systems, graphic design to a successful DJing
like rendering, animation, and serialization. He’s also career. He runs Under the Stairs, a small indie stu-
getting into the nitty-gritty details of programming dio founded in 2016 based in Zagreb, Croatia that
languages, operating systems, CPU/GPU architec- recently released its debut title Eyes in the Dark for
tures, parallelization, and geometric algebra. Gearbox Publishing. He also worked as an A&R for
two record labels as well as doing stage manage-
Marc-Andre De Blois ment and production for various music festivals.
Panache Digital Games, Design Systems Director
y Marc-André began his career
in 1997 and worked at Ubisoft as a
Gordon Van Dyke
Game Designer on Hype: The Time Raw Fury, Co-Founder
Quest, Lead Designer on Batman:
Vengeance and later on Prince of y With almost 20 years in the
Persia: The Sands of Time. He then took a ten-year games industry, Gordon Van Dyke
break from the industry to get a Master of Laws has worked on AAA to Indie. He has
and worked as a Public Notary for a short period of experienced everything from the
time. In 2012, he came back to his first love, crafting highs of super hits to the lows and
games. When Panache Digital Games was founded the ‘how do we pivot’ of super flops. He has devel-
in 2014, Marc-André was one of the first to join oped and published games and everything else in
the ranks as Senior Game Designer and he is now between. Described as a Swiss Army Knife of the
Design Systems Director. games industry, his skills and coolness under pres-
sure have enabled Gordon to excel as co-founder of
Raw Fury, a pillar of Indie Games Publishing.
Marko Jagodić
Blackshark.ai, Senior C++ Software Engineer
y Marko Jagodić is Senior C++
Sam Dark
Software Engineer specialized in Splash Damage, Senior Systems Programmer
3D computer graphics. His passion
y Sam has been in the industry 6
for programming drove him to
years now, having worked across
a position in which he can bring
Gameplay, Physics, UI, Engine and
company’s 3d rendering techniques to the bleed-
Systems Programming. He is now
ing edge of technology. Improving general quality
putting that experience and pas-
and performance of 3d environments at scale. He
sion to use as a Senior Systems Programmer at
gained his Master of Science in Faculty of Electrical
Splash Damage. With an interest in Data Oriented
Engineering and Computing at the University of
Programming and Machine Learning he is looking
Zagreb. He loves programming competitions, math
to push creativity and innovation within the pro-
and physics. Loves to understand how everything
gramming discipline whenever possible.
works. He is author of scientific research papers that
combine multidisciplinary areas of expertise.
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Bobby Wertheim PLAYERUNKNOWN Productions, Technical Director
Curve Games, VP Partnerships y Serge van Keulen’s more than
two decades of experience in applied
y Bobby Wertheim is the VP of research and software development
Partnerships for Curve Games. has brought him to a wide range of
During Bobby’s 10+ years in the industries, from Defense and Security
industry, Bobby has worked at to Automotive, Modeling and Simulation, Embedded
PlayStation, SEGA and is now work- Software and Games. His passion for simulation-
ing at Curve Games. Bobby has experience in QA, based virtual environments has been a driving
Production, Business Planning and for the last half force throughout this entire journey. He brings
decade has been working predominantly as a games this breadth of experience to PLAYERUNKNOWN
scout. Bobby is looking for developers with a track Productions’ ambitious Project Artemis, leading the
record of delivering fun games, a clear vision of R&D teams and providing a fresh perspective on
what they want to create while having a long-term scalable engine technology.
view of what they want to achieve.
Hendrik Lesser Seb Downie-Blackwell
remote control productions GmbH, CEO
remote control productions, Head of Production/
y Hendrik Lesser is the CEO of Partner
the international production house y In the games industry since ‘99.
remote control productions. After Shipped over 70 titles including
starting out more than 20 years ago 6 Killzone games, a short movie,
in the industry, he has been build- 2 albums and a bottle of vodka.
ing a family of independent development studios Working for remote control
throughout Europe and beyond, which today con- productions where I support a dozen studios with
sists of 14 teams with more than 350 passionate strategy, production planning and risk-mitigation.
game makers. Besides his commercial roles, he’s an
ambassador and lecturer to bring games as culture
technique forward, for example by being President
of the European Games Developer Federation or
as MD and board member for the Bavarian games Brendan Greene
industry association Games Bavaria Munich.
PLAYERUNKNOWN Productions, CEO
y Brendan “PLAYERUNKNOWN”
Sebastian Bender Greene, often referred to as
the father of the battle royale
Wolpertinger Games, Managing Director genre, originally designed the
game mode as a mod for the
y Founder and Managing Director ARMA series of games. He went on to create the
of the independent game develop- multi-award-winning game carrying his name,
ment studio, Wolpertinger Games, PLAYERUNKNOWN’s Battlegrounds (PUBG). He
and Creative Director and consultant now leads PLAYERUNKNOWN Productions, an
at Gamify now!, the gamification independent applied research & development
and serious games specialist of the Remote Control studio formed to explore how new technologies
Family. Strong believer that games are more than can enable large-scale digital experiences. The
entertainment, and on a mission to prove that to the studio’s multidisciplinary team is experimenting with
world. machine learning and data-driven design to build a
new simulation engine from the ground up.
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Matt Charles
Gearbox Publishing, VP of Product Development Jimmy Sieben
y As the VP of PD at Gearbox Gearbox Publishing, Head of Technology
Publishing responsible for the games
portfolio, Matt carries on the mission y Jimmy Sieben is currently Head
of trying to be the most develop- of Technology at Gearbox Publishing,
ment-friendly publishing group in empowering developers to create inno-
the world. Prior to Publishing, he spent 10 years as a vative console, PC, and mobile games.
development-side producer on multiple Borderlands He has been with Gearbox for 18 years
games. With over 15 years in the industry, Matt working on franchises including Halo, Brothers in Arms,
spends every waking minute trying to make devel- Borderlands, and Homeworld. As a programmer and a
opers & players happy with fun development cycles game maker for over 25 years, he has shipped more than
& great games. 30 titles with combined unit sales of over 90 million.
Jonas Antonsson
Jeanette Bauer Raw Fury, Reality Distortionist
Raw Fury, Event Manager
y Founder of Raw Fury, industry old
y Jeanette is a Stockholm based timer, mother of dragons, father of
creative force, leading the event children, amateur hot air machine,
strategy at indie (un) publisher Raw lover of potatoes and a little tea pot.
Fury. Her passion for ART and cre- Okay. That last thing isn’t true.
ative environments has been a driv-
ing passion thru out her entire life and the motto
which she lives by is simply put: “why not?”. With
Robert Bäckström
studies in market economy, law and art history with Aurora Punks, CEO
a combined background from Ericsson, IBM, AIG,
she joined the gaming industry in 2005 as a product y Robert Bäckström, Born 1976 in
manager (Paradox Interactive). In addition to the Stockholm. Runs a vinyl record label
current mission for Raw Fury, she is also a painter who issues classic d-beat HC punk,
and runs an art gallery in Old Town Stockholm, Skrammel Records. Occasionally still
Sweden (c/o Bauer Gallery). plays bass in a punk band. Loves to
paint and play everything Warhammer. 2006 Took
part in founding Fatshark where I worked as produc-
er for 12 years. 2018 Joined Raw Fury to explore the
Samuel Costello biz dev more - learned a lot about the very dynamic
indie segment (West of Dead, Mosaic, Sable). 2019
Hiro Capital, Principal
Started doing angel investments in game startups.
y Samuel has spent 6 years as an 2020 Took part in founding Aurora Punks.
Analyst working across M&A and
Tech Production Functions. Working
with multiple business units. Samuel Igor Simic
also assisted in product develop- Demagog Studio, CEO
ment, devising product strategies for entering new
games markets and developing new products. As an y Igor is the creative director
avid pc and console gamer and ex-hacker with deep and CEO of Demagog Studio, best
technical experience ranging from Cloud Computing known for the award-winning
to Game Engines, he has always been drawn to the game Golf Club: Wasteland and its
technology that underpins and enables games. soundtrack Radio Nostalgia from
Samuel focuses on the product and gameplay analy- Mars. Demagog Studio is expected to release two
sis of Hiro’s investment strategy. new titles from the same universe, The Cub and
Highwater.
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The GARAGE PARTY Ilari Kuittinen
Housemarque, Studio Head
Sponsored by Nanobit y As the co-founder of the oldest
Finnish game studio, Ilari has run
Housemarque for the past 27 years.
Mikael Haveri
Last year, the company released the Housemarque, Brand Director
Sheraton garage award-winning PlayStation 5 exclu-
sive Returnal and joined the PlayStation Studios. y Mikael is the Brand Director at
29th September @ 9 PM Housemarque. All the things outside
of actual development still need to
Reboot and Nanobit invite you to another awesome garage party in the undergrounds
of the Hotel Sheraton! Join us for drinks and dance your way into the night! Piotr Bajraszewski be done and he is the proper the
man for that job. As an all-rounder,
11 bit studios S.A., Business Development Lead he crashed E3 with Nex Machina and delivered
*Every attendee badge comes with two drinks coupon for the party recent mega godzilla Returnal. He likes Tatra Tea and
y Piotr is a Business Development talking about games and special projects.
Lead at 11 bit studios, where he
works for more than 5 years now.
Amongst others he and his team are
responsible for new business devel-
Julian Mautner
opment, sales management, partner relations and stillalive studios GmbH, CEO
performance management. Prior to joining 11 bit he
worked at CDP (CDP.pl) as a Project/Biz Dev Manager y Julian Mautner is founder and
Manager. Before he joined Game Dev, he worked CEO of stillalive studios GmbH.
at Deloitte Business Consulting for more than 3 Since 2010 he has built up an inter-
years. He is an MBA Candidate and holds a Master of nationally recognized studio and a
Economics degree from the University of Warsaw. team of talented experts focusing
on cross-platform development of Simulation and
Management games. Coming from a quantum
Dimitrije Cvetković theory research background himself, the team has
a strong tech knowhow and consists of ~70 team
members distributed across 14 timezones. Stillalive
Mad Head Games, Head of Audio studios is best known for their very successful Bus
y A game audio developer with Simulator franchise as well as own IPs like Drone
over a decade of experience in Swarm and Rescue HQ.
creating and implementing sound
and music for games. As Head of
Audio at Mad Head Games, he
facilitates various aspects of audio production for all
Catalin Butnariu
of the studio’s titles and works on empowering the Romanian Game Developers Association,
inhouse audio team to achieve their best possible President
results.
y Catalin Butnariu is the President
of RGDA (the Romanian Game
Developers Association) and as such,
Ivan Švarc is one of the most vocal supporters
of the games sector in Romania.
Gamepires d.o.o., Lead Animator
He is also the Head of Corporate Development
y Ivan is Lead animator in at Amber, a Romanian games company, and the
Gamepires. Besides animation, he founder of Dev.Play Conference. His past roles
is also senior 3d artist with over 20 include being General Manager at Carbon Incubator
years of experience. and Division Director at Gameloft.
42 43Charles Cecil
Revolution Software, Founder & CEO
y Charles Cecil, awarded ‘Industry
Katerina Burbela
Legend’ status by Develop, has been remote control productions GmbH, Business
a key figure in video games develop- Development Manager
ment for 40 years. In 1990 he founded
Revolution, today one of the world’s y Katerina has started her journey
leading adventure game companies which created the in gaming a bit more than 6 years
Broken Sword and Beyond/Beneath a Steel Sky series. ago. With Business Development
Charles has additionally designed titles as diverse as experience in outsourcing, publish-
The Da Vinci Code for Sony Pictures and Doctor Who ing, now she is representing remote
for the BBC for which he won a BAFTA award. In 2011 control productions (rcp family), biggest EU produc-
Charles was awarded an MBE for services to the com- tion house of 13 indie game developers across 6
puter games industry, and in 2019 was awarded an countries.
honorary Doctorate by the University of York.
Patrick Sweeney Damir Halilovic
Mad Head Games, Technical Director
Interactive Entertainment Law Group, Attorney
y One of the “founders” of the
y Patrick Sweeney is the founder Bosnian game development indus-
of the Interactive Entertainment try, Damir has been working in the
Law Group. He is one of the leading industry for over a decade. After
attorneys in the video game industry, working on several projects using
having served both as in-house and Unreal Engine, he joined Mad Head Games where he
external counsel to a variety of companies in his is now working as the technical director for one of
career.In his 25 years in the games industry, Sweeney the studio’s upcoming titles, as well as helming the
has negotiated an array of game development agree- Sarajevo studio as studio manager.
ments for more than 1000 games and over 50 film,
TV and comic licenses, and dozens of M&A/corporate
investment deals. The firm has represents 400+ clients
from over 30 different countries. Borys Trienin
remote control productions GmbH, Business
Development Manager
Tomislav Gojević y Borys is working with the rcp
Fury Studios, Head of studio family, representing a group of inde-
pendent game development studios
y Tomislav Gojević is the head of from Europe and beyond. Started
the video game development studio working in the games industry 8
Fury Studios, from the Swedish indie years ago in the Ukrainian company SnoopGame QA
publisher Raw Fury, with over 15 years with just 3 colleagues. He exited the company as a
of experience in management and CEO with a team of 50 people in 2020 to join remote
organization in the telecommunications and games control productions in Munich. Currently, there are
industry. He works daily to improve the video games 15 studios across 4 countries in the rcp group with
that Raw Fury publishes and to foster a human and more than 400 employees. With a passion for pre-
professional approach to video game development. mium PC/Console games, Borys helps rcp teams to
navigate the market and pitch projects to publishers
worldwide.
44 45Luka Naglić The BEACHSIDE PARTY
Nanobit, Head of Growth
y Luka is working in the mobile
Sponsored by Games Revolted
marketing industry for the past 3 Renaud Charpentier
years. He started as a data analyst
Tower Five, CEO & Game Director
but soon specialized in marketing
analytics and became the Head of
Growth in Nanobit. His math and computer scientist
y Renaud has been a video games
creator for the last 25 years, serving
Oleander Beach Bar
background helps him exploit marketing data to
its fullest, especially now in this fast-changing data
as game designer & game direc-
tor for companies like Ubisoft and
30th September @ 9 PM
privacy world. Luka has managed marketing analyt- Sega before co-founding Tower Five Reboot and Games Revolted invite you yet again to a beautiful beachside bar for now a
ics for initial launch of Tabou Stories®: Love Episodes, in 2017. He contributed to international licenses tradional night long entertainment and drinks at Oleander Beach Bar, near Astarea Hotel
and Winked: Episodes of Romance titles. He is pas- like Rayman, Splinter Cell, Total War or XIII but
sionate about data and mathematical marketing *Every attendee badge comes with two drinks coupon for the party
also worked on Indie games like Lornsword. His
models as well as using his gamer knowledge in his expertise and interest covers the wider definition
day-to-day workload. of game design: from creative direction to player’s
experience through the various tools and tech-
niques to bring them to life.
Nils Pihl
Matterless, CEO
y Nils Pihl is a behavioral engineer
Tom Field
and social transhumanist with a life- Rebellion, Design lead
long interest in memetics; the study
of how information and ideas spread y Tom Field is a lead designer
and become viral. A founder of two working at Rebellion Studios, one
startups, Nils is the CEO of both of Auki Labs, build- of the UK’s leading entertainment
ing a decentralized protocol for collaborative spatial studios across film, TV, and games.
computing, and Matterless, creating genre-defining His early work includes design on
experiences in shared augmented reality. Nils is also the hit game Zombie Army 4 and as a lead designer
a Warhammer 40k nerd and will challenge you to on Sniper Elite 5. Find out more about Rebellion at
battle with his finely painted Space Wolves army. Rebellion.com.
Rami Ismail Dominik Šafarić
Rami Ismail, Rami Ismail
Nanobit, Project and Manager
y Rami Ismail is a Dutch-Egyptian
industry ambassador & independent y Dominik is a Project Manager
games developer with over 20 titles at Nanobit. He is responsible for
across PC, console, web, and mobile. managing external partnerships
His development of tools like the and business development activi-
industry-standard dopresskit.com, his prolific & ties, including the collaboration
popular public speaking, and highly-regarded con- with Netflix and Facebook. He gained his Master of
sultancy and insights have helped shape industry Science (MSc) in Software Engineering degree at the
opportunities for game communities & independent Faculty of Science at the University of Amsterdam,
game developers of any kind, in any situation, and the Netherlands. He is the author of a few scientific
anywhere. research papers conducted in collaboration with the
Technical University Delft.
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